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How Do I Reduce Buffers To Zero?
Dear Gemba CoachI run an assembly line for service station equipment. Our product is customized for each customer so we…
Read article Lessons From LEI Partners on How Change Happens: An Interview with John Shook
An interview with Lean Enterprise Institute Chairman and CEO John Shook on the LEI Partners Program, collaborative learning, and what's…
Read article 4Ps Prove Lean Applies Everywhere
Trainer Tracey Richardson explains how four deep principles reveal how lean thinking applies to any organization.
Read article Why Is It So Hard To Sustain Lean Gains?
Dear Gemba Coach: Why is it so hard to sustain lean gains?
Read article Summit Highlights: Healthcare Value Network and Bahri Dental Group Bring Lean Into Healthcare
A recap of two talks at the 2012 Lean Transformation Summit: Dr. John Toussaint's talk on the work of the…
Read article Leading with GTS²
Lean leadership is ultimately about behaving--and in this article Tracey Richardson explains why GTS squared enables leaders to not just…
Read article Let Your A3s Lead
Coach Eric Ethington shares how simply getting started with A3s as a means of engaging others in this process is…
Read article Can Hospitals Reap the Deeper Benefits of Lean?
Dear Gemba Coach: As Health Systems globally wrestle with skyrocketing healthcare costs, many hospitals are jumping on the lean bandwagon,…
Read article Taiichi Ohno’s Birthday and 100 Years of Lean
Today is Taiichi Ohno's birthday. Were he alive, the primary developer of the Toyota Production System would be turning 100…
Read article The Birth of Lean: How Practices, Principles, and Tools Came Together as a System
Toyota was struggling to survive when Taiichi Ohno and a handful of innovators began experimenting with methods that ultimately became…
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Find One Second of Waste
Coach Tracey Richardson shows you how she learned the importance of looking for waste everywhere, and how you can start…
Read article Lean and Forecasting
Dear Gemba Coach: I’m in charge of the forecasting department in my company. My colleagues in production have been doing…
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